'What If We Say “Yes!” to Our Body' & 'bodyRealities: cityCodes'

What If We Say "Yes!" to Our Body
Director: Mimi Lo
Hong Kong | 2021 | 32 mins. | DCP | Colour

bodyRealities: cityCodes
Director: Miriam Jakobs, Gerhard Schick
Germany, Ghana | 2017 | 53 mins. | HD | Colour

With post-screening talk with Mimi Lo (director of the film and Mimi LO Performing Arts Development Foundation), Gerda König (choreographer and director of DIN A 13 tanzcompany) and Gerhard Schick (director) (Zoom, conducted in English)

Both Mimi LO Performing Arts Development Foundation and DIN A 13 tanzcompany are committed to encourage people of different abilities to explore and express themselves through dance. They believe inclusive dance can bring people closer and build a more inclusive society. 

WHAT IF WE SAY “YES” TO OUR BODY shares Mimi Lo’s more than 20 years of dance experience - from body to mind - to illustrate the special relationship between her dance studies and the unique city of Hong Kong. Facing the many "no’s” in the city - "No trespassing”, “No lying on the benches”, “No climbing” - bodies are forced to internalise those limitations. Whether it is possible to dance, is it a mere physical condition, or is it decided by the voice that says “no” in our mind? 

BODYREALITIES: CITYCODES deals with the complex structures of the ghanaian capital Accra and its inhabitants. In the urban areas of the sprawling city, slum settlements extend along the modernised city; the values and products of globalization seem unattainable for a majority of the population behind the shiny glass façades. The mixed-abled dance performance manifests the interweaving forces of space, memories and politics on one’s body. 

You may find more films in the programme here. 
This film programme accompanies the exhibition THE BODY AND THE CITY at the Goethe-Galerie and Black Box Studio.